Being Human Is Still Your Advantage

I have been using ChatGPT for a while now. With help from a friend, I trained a bot using my book, newsletters, blogs, course material and notes. We set it up on my website so anyone can ask it about Deep Health. It replies just like I would. Sometimes better. It keeps learning, getting sharper, faster. And it’s going to change things, especially for people who rely on mid-level skill jobs like nutritionists or consultants. The truth is, the tech will replace some tasks.There is a lot of talk about what jobs will vanish in the next ten years. Nobody knows for sure. That part is hard to predict. What is easier to see is what won’t change. And that is where the focus should be. When things fall apart, don’t rush to predict collapse. Prepare for what doesn’t move.

Start with human nature. Greed, fear, love, meaning, ambition. None of that evolves. People still chase status. They still avoid pain. They still want pleasure. That has been true forever. It will stay true forever. You and I still want the same things we always did: safety, meaning, peace, and respect. We want to be seen. We want to belong. We crave stories. We connect through human experience. Even with AI rising, human connection still wins. That does not get outdated. Want trust? Treat people like people. Want to raise good kids? Teach them honesty, courage, and kindness. These are not old-school values. They are survival tools. They are how life still works, and always will.

Discipline. Show up. Do the work. Daily. That’s still how people grow. When things fall apart, the disciplined person is the one who rebuilds. Every time. I have seen it in my own life. I write every day. I sleep on time. I say no to distractions. 

Simple still works too. Clarity over cleverness, always. Life gets confusing. Don’t add to the mess. Eat well. Move daily. Be honest. Save more than you spend. Cut what doesn’t matter. You can’t control chaos. But you can control how simple you stay. Simple gets results. Complicated usually breaks.

Pain will always be part of life. That doesn’t change. Every hard season has taught me something I couldn’t have learned any other way. But only because I faced it. Avoiding pain doesn’t erase it. It just delays the lesson. When life hits hard, treat it like a workout. That’s your strength training. You are building resilience. 

And all these things that make us human are exactly what will help us stand back up when we get knocked down. Tech might take the job. It might outperform us in speed or memory. But it can’t replace trust. It can’t build relationships. It can’t carry meaning. When systems fail, it’s not a new tool that saves you. It’s your character. Your ability to adapt. To breathe. To stay calm. To ask for help. To work hard with dignity. That’s the edge no algorithm has. If your job disappears, your worth doesn’t. Your voice still matters. You still know how to think clearly, how to persuade, how to connect, how to solve problems for real people. That is your restart button. And it’s built into you.

Apps, rules, and dating culture keep changing. But trust still builds relationships. Respect still holds them together. Communication still drives them. That won’t shift. Not in the next ten years. Not in the century. 

So I keep asking myself: how am I showing up? How am I treating the people in my life? Because the foundation of connection has not changed. 

Same goes for health. The trends shift fast. One decade it’s low fat. One it’s low carb. One week it’s fasting, the next week it’s cold plunges and supplements. But what works hasn’t changed in decades. Eat mostly real food. Move your body. Sleep. Drink water. Get sunlight. That’s it. 

So don’t fear the chaos. Build for it. The more you depend on things that break, the easier you break with them. But when you build your life on timeless principles, you don’t just survive the storm, you get stronger from it. That’s antifragility. 

Writer Morgan Housel said, ‘The trick in any field, from finance to careers to relationships, is being able to survive the short-run problems so you can stick around long enough to enjoy the long-term growth.’ 

That’s it. That’s the game.